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This project aims to foster cross-disciplinary initiatives
enabling forms of collaboration among science, music, philosophy, and new media. Fostering a collective environment vital for contemporary practices, these sessions
will take place inside the installation space, promoting different interpretations of the work while presenting other visions and appropriations of the
piece.

Friday, March 31, 5-8pmOpening Reception/ Artist Talk

This ambitious endeavor occupies the entire AEIVA lobby, Hess Family Lecture Hall, gallery concourse and atrium ceiling of the building.

The opening reception will feature a one night event where Gilberto Castillo, Jessica Angel's longest collaborator, will release a sound design album created exclusively for the installation. A special color lighting, displayed only at the opening night, will complement the piece, enhancing its immersive and sensorial qualities.

Prior to the reception, Jessica Angel will talk about her work and the concepts behind it, as she walks around the installation pointing at specific elements, describing its origins and the detailed references in her research.

Friday, April 7, 5pmAir in a Loop/ Chamber Music

In collaboration with UAB's College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Music and the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Laura Usiskin curates the fifth Chamber Music concert at AEIVA. For this collaboration with Jessica Angel, Laura Usiskin shared the projects's proposal, concepts and inicial sketches with world premier composers, members of the Birmingham Arts and Music Alliance: Monroe Golden, Holland Hopson, Kyle McGucken and Tom Reiner. The performing musicians are from the UAB Department of Music as well as the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Opera. More info HERE

Playing First and Third Saturday of April, May, June and July. 3-5pmNearly an Object/ Sound Design by Gilberto Castillo

After 9 years of working
with Jessica Angel, producing the sound design for her installations, Gilberto
Castillo releases his album "Nearly an Object". A structural
sound-map composed of electronic sounds inspired by the elasticity of time and
space, exclusively created to play at AEIVA for the installation "Facing
the Hyperstructure"

This endeavor marks the affirmation of a long term collaborative relationship that culminates in the creation of a solid body of work in sound design.The album will play inside the AEIVA lobby, Gallery One, Hess Family Lecture Hall and outdoors in the Jay Jemison III Art Plaza.More Info HERE

The
conversation will focus on the flexibility of our brains to manage visual
perception using visual illusions as examples to show the ambiguous and diverse
interpretations we can give to a single image. Analogies, associations, and
previous experiences will be the subjects the panelists will discuss to
understand what triggers our perception to give us a truthful sense of what we see.

This
cult film by Terri Gilliam, had a great influence in Jessica Angel’s imagery
in the early stages of her artistic practice. The conception of the city as a
totalizing construct and the failure of the futuristic utopia into a
technocratic dystopia, revealed how the spatiality provided by the urban
arrangement of the city determined the social construction of its population.This movie screening is the second of installment of a series of movies presented at AEIVA. Pizza, movie, and a tour will be part of the this event.Read here Jessica Angel's review of Brazil and the underlying relationship with the movie to the concepts addresses in "Facing the Hyperstructure"

Using the atrium ceiling as a projection screen, Elisabeth Pellathy will interact with the installation by creating a time-based piece. She proposes video as noise, video as abstracted imagery through
signal, and animation as text. Video work was made with
the Dave Jones modular analog video system​
at a Signal Culture ToolMaker Residency. Animation created to accompany video
work discusses that which is hidden/revealed through noise. As her piece is projected on the ceiling, animations made by her students will be projected in other sections of the building.Find more information HERE

Thursday, June 8, 7-9pmAbsorption Lines/ Drawing Animation

In this conversation six animators reconstruct a drawing made by the artist Jessica Angel as an animation. Employing ideas of the reconceptualization of duration we rotoscope to build the drawing from ground up. Working as a team, each artist draws an amount of frames to relay to the next animator. Within the overarching reconstruction secondary stories emerge as the animators step out of timeline to reveal independent “wormholes” stories that relate to space, geometry, and movement.­ These animations are part of a project developed by UAB professor Elisabeth Pellathy's new media class student and it will be screened along Elisabeth's piece.Participants: Keisha Chambers, Cheyenne Dawson, Noah
Duffy, Kenyon Lair, Katie Lutz, and Amanda Morgado.